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Lucas Museum Reveals How Its Collection, Building, and Park Are Developing Together to Create an Institution Dedicated to Narrative Art.
Through visual storytelling, the Lucas Museum expands the role of art and museums for society. The museum inspires thought-provoking ideas and conversations that are relevant within and beyond geographic boundaries. Our work radiates to catalyze more connected and empathetic spaces.
Lucas’s belief in the power of an image to capture our humanity and convey emotion is at the heart of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Growing up in Modesto, California, Lucas devoured the popular art available to him on magazine covers, in comic books and at the movies.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is a museum founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson. Once completed, the museum will hold all forms of visual storytelling, including painting, photography, sculpture, illustration, comic art, performance, and video.
Mar 3, 2024 · The museum describes itself as the first to focus exclusively on storytelling through images and will include paintings, sculptures, murals, photography, comic art, and illustrations.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art takes an inclusive approach to visual storytelling, exploring academically rooted and mass-produced art forms as well as new modes of creative practice.
Sep 18, 2021 · The $1-billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is on track to premiere in 2023. Los Angeles has not had a major film museum until now, with the Academy Museum opening. But how much visitor appetite...
Currently under construction in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park and set to open in 2025, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art was designed by renowned architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects with Stantec as the architect-of-record.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be a gathering place to experience narrative art and the evolution of moving images – from illustration to cinema to the digital mediums of the future.
Sep 20, 2022 · Spanning from ancient Roman mosaics to Renaissance painting to contemporary photography, and representing diverse cultures and artistic media, the museum’s collection demonstrates the breadth of themes and viewpoints with which narrative art can engage dynamic and diverse publics.
